The government of Pakistan has backed out its commitment to review the country’s controversial Islamic blasphemy laws. On Dec. 30, 2010, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Syed Khursheed Shah requested that merchants and those in favor of the blasphemy laws to call off their nation-wide shutdown of businesses scheduled for Dec. 31 because the government has no intention to change or repeal these laws. The government’s move is to appease Islamic religious groups who have announce that they will shutter their businesses on New Years Eve to protest against any move to amend the laws. Just a week ago, the Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti declared that despite various pressures the government will definitely review the laws.
Islamic laws against the “blasphemy” of Islam, Muhammad, the Koran, and Islamic personalities were introduced by late Genral Zia-ul-Haq in 1980s and have widely… Read more

BAGHDAD – Iraqi authorities have obtained confessions from captured insurgents who claim al-Qaida is planning suicide attacks in the United States and Europe during the Christmas season, two senior officials said Wednesday.
Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani told The Associated Press that the botched bombing in central Stockholm last weekend was among the alleged plots the insurgents revealed. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, in a telephone interview from New York, called the claims “a critical threat.”…

I wonder how many of you are aware that the Prophet Muhammad despised Muslims who do not pray 5-times a day in a Mosque and labels such Muslims as 1/25th Muslims?

Bukhari: Volume 1, Book 11, Number 620:
Narrated Abu Huraira:

Allah’s Apostle said, “The reward of the prayer offered by a person in congregation is “twenty five times” greater than that of the prayer offered in one’s house or in the market (alone). And this is because if he performs ablution and does it perfectly and then proceeds to the mosque with the sole intention of praying, then for every step he takes towards the mosque, he is upgraded one degree in reward and his one sin is taken off (crossed out) from his accounts (of deeds). When he offers his prayer, the angels keep on asking Allah’s Blessings and Allah’s forgiveness for him as long… Read more

This post is for information of the Ahmadiyya sect for those who may question why the Ahmadis have been shunned in the(orthodox) Islamic world. Here is a list of the rejections.

Ahmadiyya Sect Rejected by Orthodox Islam

ISLAMIC COUNTRIES THAT HAVE REJECTED THE AHMADIYYA SECT
There are many Muslim countries that have also rejected Ahmadis as Muslims.

(1) Mauritius was the first country to declare them non-Muslims in 1930′s
(2a) South Africa, followed in 1974,
(2b) Saudi Arabia simply deports Ahmadis. [3] [3a]
(2c) Indonesia: Government Orders Ahmadiyya Sect to Cease Practice- Manis Lor June 9, 2008.
Indonesia: Government Orders Ahmadiyya Sect to Cease Practice-Manis Lor-
On Monday the President of Indonesia signed a decree ordering the Muslim ahmadiyya sect to cease the practice of their form of Islam, the International Herald Tribune reported on June 9. The hard-line Muslim organization ‘United… Read more